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-- Water on earth may fill them in, but there's no water on the moon to do the same there.

-- Craters on the earth get worn down by rain, snow, wind, hail, etc. But there's no rain, snow, wind, hail, or etc. on the moon to do the same to them there, so those there don't get worn down.

-- The lack of atmosphere on the moon allows larger meteorite strikes, whereas most meteorites burn up completely or almost completely when passing through earth's atmosphere.

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You see few craters on the Earth. Between the fact that 75% of the Earth is covered with water, and wind, rain, earthquakes, landslides. volcanoes and continental drift, the Earth's surface changes fairly quickly. From a geologic perspective, of course.

The Moon's surface is dead. There are no volcanoes, no major moonquakes, no oceans. No weather; no rain, no wind. When a meteoroid strikes the Moon, it leaves a crater - and the ONLY way that crater gets disturbed is by another crater.

You can bet that for every crater you can see on the Moon, there once were equivalent impacts on the Earth. But the Moon's craters are forever. The Earth is always rebuilding itself.

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